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This is a neat little trick that I discovered that you can use to get really high scores on those "Find The Difference" games that they have at some bars (there's at least one in the Google Play store too). After I recorded this show I played to see just how high I could score, and I turned the score over.

I've always liked maps. Since getting a few GPS enabled devices maps have become even more useful to me, and I like them more and more all the time. Here is a brief episode on the GPS devices and map software that I use most often. I hope you enjoy my episode, and find something useful in it. The outro is a remix of Downright by Broam and Klaatu.

Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge were not entirely pleased with the things pokey had to say about them in the Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Show episode 1418. They graciously contacted HPR and asked for a chance to clear the air. In this episode pokey has a chat with them about their views on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and advocacy.

There should be a PDF with these show notes that has a shitty logo page so you can see some stickers that can be ordered. The stickers are very good quality as are the T-shirts. Richard Querin and others have done the artwork.

I've always felt a little awkward in social situations, and I'm always looking for ways to get over that feeling. One way I do that is to try and make myself useful, and one useful thing that I know is how to light and keep a small fire going. No one else ever seems to want to do it, and it's fun if you do it right. Admittedly there isn't much to it, but that just makes it all that much easier to learn. It isn't quite as intuitive as you might think if you've never done it, especially if it's a little damp out. Use tinder (paper, dried grass, cotton balls, etc...) to get the flame going, light your kindling (small twigs, pinecones, split sticks) over the tinder, and increase the size of your kindling until you have a good pile of coals that can sustain the burning of split logs. Keep your logs and sticks as parallel as you can, make sure air can flow freely through your burning pile of wood and don't let your coals spread too thin. If you're good, you should be able to get a fire going with just a single match and no accelerants (which are usually illegal anyway). If you're really good, you might even be able to do it with just a spark.

I'm going to call this an experimental episode. It's a tutorial on eding the Open Street Map at http://www.openstreetmap.org/ . By all rights, this should have been done as a screen cast, but since I have no interest in doing a screen cast, we're going to try something different. For this episode to work, I'll need your cooperation, and for it to make any sence to you, you'll need to be signed into http://www.openstreetmap.org/ . So go ahead and create an account over there (or begin the password reset process) while you're downloading this audio file. You're going to need an account if you want to edit anyway, so I'm not asking for anything you wouldn't be doing anyway. You may find it helpful to have a second tab open to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features . It won't be much help while listening to the episode, but it is very helpful while editing in general.

Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment I have included a few.

I tried to conduct a friendly interview with Richard here. Every time I've heard him interviewed before, it's been pretty hostile, and I didn't want that. That doesn't mean that I only asked him softball questions, but I didn't get in his face about anything, and I gave him the time he needed to explain his answers fully. I hope I did a good job of making Mr. Stallman feel welcome at Hacker Public radio, and I hope the interview is as enjoyable to listen to as it was to record. His views on Free Software are pretty well known, so I tried to cover some things that I've never heard Richard's opinoins on as well. I KNOW... I missed some pretty obvious followup questions. I realized most of them while editing. I'm sorry. The good news is that RMS is pretty accessable, and you can probably get him to do a followup interview that we'll publish right here on hackerpublicradio.org .

I want to thank the following people who helped in the production of this episode:
Richard for the interview itself. It was a real pleasure. I hope we can do it again sometime.
Martin Dluhos, Richard's assistant, for setting up mumble on an FSF computer, and handeling the scheduling, etc...
irc.freenode.net #oggcastplanet for all of the great questions and inspiration. You guys rock (as always)! I wish I had thought to write down who each question belonged to. Sorry about that.
Door-to-door-geek, and the Linux Basix podcast for the use of their mumble server.
Neil Dudeman and the other guys who listened live for the support and some more great questions.
Broam (a.k.a. Brian, NOT Bryan with a why) for being a good friend, and trying to get home in time to co-host. Happy Birthday, buddy.

Additional media used in this episode:

MooGNU by the anonymous posters on the 4chan technology image board /g/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

I've been using Salix OS, a Slackware derivative, for a while now and I wanted to share my love of it with it's developers and with all of you. If you find this interview or this GNU/Linux distro compelling please go to http://www.salixos.org and give it a try.

Thank you so much for listening.
-pokey

P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have probably included a few.

Please forgive the audio quality of this recording. Due to the acoustics of the room, and my crappy mic, I had to "massage" the recording an awful lot to be able to hear all three people at a reasonable level without overwhelming you with background noise. I did my best.

I want to thank Donald and Matt for making it such a great interview. They were firendly, respectful, and kind. I had a great time with them durring the interview, and at the afterparty. They represent the FSF well.

An id3 tag is meta-data attached to an audio file, and is (ideally) about the file to which it is attached. If you've ever tried to edit id3 tags through a media player, then you know what a pain that is. If you haven't... Well, now you never have to. Rejoice! Kid3-qt is an id3 tag editor, and it is awesome.
The main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/
Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright
The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/shreds/brickpig_shreds.mp3
Hacker Public Radio will have a table at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest. Please come visit us to learn about contributing to HPR and for a free HPR sticker (while they last). You can also join in and help us out. If you're a contributor to HPR, represent. Please Join the Hacker Public Radio mailing list to keep up to speed on what we're doing.
You can sign up for the HPR mailing list at http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
The main website for NELF is http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/
Thank you for listening.
P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have probably included a few.

Hacker Public Radio will have a table at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest. Please come visit us to learn about contributing to HPR and for a free HPR sticker (while they last). You can also join in and help us out. If you're a contributor to HPR, represent. Please Join the Hacker Public Radio mailing list to keep up to speed on what we're doing.

Cabeling at home can be tricky. In this episode pokey and resno discuss some ways of creating a wired network in a residential space. Resno was kind enough to let us use his own home as the example for this discussion.

The Main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/
Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright

The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/tw3rp/anarchaeologists_tw3rp.mp3

P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Not all threads are perfect, but they can be. Hackers sometimes become makers, and makers sometimes use threaded fasteners. Fasteners sometimes need a little TLC before they can serve you as well as you'd like. Also Whiskey pairs surprisingly well with Cheez-its® and Play-Doh®. If any of this sounds familiar, then this episode is for you.
The Main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/
Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright
The direct link to today's song is http://songfightorg.dreamhosters.com/music/outside_paradise/andrewayers+guest_op.mp3
P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have included a few.